A performance enhancing drug (PED) is any substance taken to improve a person’s physical performance. PEDs are most often taken or abused by athletes who are trying to improve their abilities. Athletes take Steroids or Human Growth Hormone (HGH)‚ which are types of PEDs that are used to build up muscle strength. They might also take different forms of painkillers to try and increase their threshold for pain. Another type of PED that an athlete might take is a blood booster such as Erythropoietin
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MALAYSIA SPORTS & FITNESS DIRECTORY 2010/2011 MALAYSIA SPORTS & FITNESS DIRECTORY 2010/2011 Sports in Malaysia - A General Overview When asked about what needs to be done to encourage youths in this country to be involved in sports‚ ex-Olympian and International Sports Official‚ Datuk Dr Mani Jegathesan says it is absolutely crucial that we push for a healthy lifestyle‚ including physical activity‚ for all Malaysians‚ especially the youth. “They are our future‚ life habits and skills are best
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Sports can be taken as a part of education‚ for they seek to develop three sides of one’s nature-physical‚ mental and moral. Sports make the body strong and active‚ and some particular games train the intellect and develop the sense of morality‚ too. They provide sufficient exercise to the body‚ and the rules guiding a particular game make the players disciplined‚ while they play it. A right player in the right place can discover the weak points of the opponents and can take advantage of them. Thus
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As time passes us by‚ the meaning of old age in sports changes every day. It used to be the older players would get it would be more likely they would get benched‚ cut‚ etc. Now with the improvement in exercise‚ medicine‚ and nutrition older generations are seeing more and more players compete at an older age. The meaning of age has change from last generation to this generation. I went to go talk to my uncle‚ who is heading into his 60s. He used to play amateur soccer back in Mexico. I asked him
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The use of banned performance-enhancing drugs (PEDS) in sports is commonly referred to as doping. The word doping is probably derived from the Dutch word dop‚ the name of an alcoholic beverage made of grape skins used by Zulu warriors in order to enhance their prowess in battle. The term became current around the turn of the 20th century‚ originally referring to illegal drugging of racehorses. ‘Doping’ however is as old as competitive sport itself. Modern times - In 1904 Olympics
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Physics of Sports A sport isn’t just about winning; it is also about strategy‚ how the game is played‚ and performance of the athletes. Physics is the last topic many people associate with sports. However‚ physics can be applied to every aspect of any sport‚ which is a study referred to as Sports Science. Components of this study include gravity‚ projectile motion‚ acceleration‚ force‚ vectors‚ etc. With new technology that physics in sports introduce‚ more possibilities of physical science can
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Sports Rituals Athletes use sports rituals in every sport in the world. They can be simple‚ something the person came up with just then on the spot‚ or they can be complex‚ something the player has been doing since they can remember. No one truly knows when sports rituals started to make an appearance in the modern world‚ but they are here now and do not seem to be leaving any time soon. Sports rituals mean so much. They get an athlete pumped or excited before a match. They help a person get focused
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Performance management (PM) includes activities which ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on the performance of an organization‚ a department‚ employee‚ or even the processes to build a product of service‚ as well as many other areas. PM is also known as a process by which organizations align their resources‚ systems and employees to strategic objectives and priorities.[1] Performance management originated as a broad
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Sports Drinks and Homeostasis Gail B. Wortmann Iowa Learning Online 2001 Iowa Teacher of the Year Teacher Notes: Sports Drinks and Homeostasis Personal notes from the author: If you want students to have a rich discussion about a topic‚ the topic has to be “on their agenda.” Students need to have something from their past experience to contribute to make the discussion truly engaging. Most students have tried sports drinks at some time in their life‚ and therefore‚ have experiences
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Steroids vs. Blood Doping (Cheating in Sports) When it comes to cheating in sports‚ there aren’t actually a lot of ways to cheat. But the two most popular ways of cheating in modern day society is the use of steroids‚ and the process of blood doping. Although these two forms of cheating are both performance enhancers‚ they differ in multiple ways; ways such as the goals that the user wants to obtain by cheating‚ the function of each type‚ or the athletes’ reasoning for cheating. An IB
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